Class of 1967

In the year 2002, most of us turned 53 years old and we’re about:

32 years 7 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 85
29 years 0 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 82
25 years 0 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 77
17 years 8 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 70
15 years 6 months younger than Larry King, age 68
9 years 4 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 62
5 years 11 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 58
2 years 11 months younger than President G.W. Bush, age 55
2 years 1 month older than Jesse Ventura, age 50
6 years 5 months older than Bill Gates, age 46
11 years 1 month older than John Elway, age 41
14 years 6 months older than when Kennedy was assassinated, age 38
16 years 9 months older than Cindy Crawford, age 36
22 years 2 months older than Jeff Gordon, age 30
26 years 7 months older than Tiger Woods, age 26
32 years 6 months older than Jenna and Barbara Bush, age 20

This also means we were:

52 years old when 9/11/01 World Trade Center Disaster occurred 
52 years old when a postage stamp cost 37 cents (June 2002)
51 years old when a postage stamp cost 34 cents
48 years old when Princess Diana died
46 years old when a postage stamp cost 32 cents
45 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
45 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
45 years old when a postage stamp cost 29 cents
43 years old at the time of the bombing of the World Trade Center (first)
41 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
40 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
36 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
34 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
34 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
32 years old when a postage stamp cost 18 cents.
31 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
30 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
27 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
25 years old when President Nixon left office
22 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
20 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
19 years old when a postage stamp cost 6 cents for first class; 10 cents for air mail
18 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
18 years old on the day we graduated
16 years old during the Watts riot
14 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
10 years old when Hawaii was admitted as the 50th of the United States
8 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
4 years old at the end of the Korean War

...and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred our age was (for most of us):

The Doggie in the Window, Patti Page: 3
Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley and His Comets: 6
Don't be Cruel, Elvis Presley: 7
American Bandstand first airs nationally: 8
Tequila, The Champs: 8
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper die in a plane crash: 9
The Twist, Chubby Checker: 11
Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean: 12
Sherry, The 4 Seasons: 13
The Beatles first appear live on The Ed Sullivan Show: 14
Downtown, Petula Clark: 15
The 8 track tape player first offered in 1966 Fords: 16
To Sir with Love, Lulu: 18
Hey Jude, The Beatles: 19
Woodstock Music Festival: 20
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin: 21
ABC TV premieres In Concert: 23
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce: 24
I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 25
Silly Love Songs, Wings: 26
Elvis Presley Dies: 28
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart: 29
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 30
John Lennon is shot to death: 31
MTV makes its debut: 32
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 33
The recording of We Are The World: 35
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 37
Didn't We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 38
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 39
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor: 40
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 42
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration: 43
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 44
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 46

and that we were (most of us):

3 years old at the time TV Guide debuted nationally
6 years old when the series Gunsmoke started
8 years old during the first airing of Leave It To Beaver
10 years old when the first episode of Bonanza aired
13 years old at the time Beverly Hillbillies first aired
15 years old when the Addams Family first appeared on TV
17 years old at the time the first Star Trek episode was televised
21 years old when All in the Family was first shown
23 years old at the time the TV series M*A*S*H began
26 years old when Saturday Night Live first aired
28 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
31 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
33 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
37 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
37 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
40 years old when Seinfeld was first televised
42 years old in the month Home Improvement began
45 years old at the time the TV series Friends began
47 years old when Everybody Loves Raymond first aired
50 years old when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began in the US

and when these movies were released in the U.S. our age was (for most of us):

Old Yeller: 8
Ben-Hur: 10
West Side Story: 12
The Sound of Music: 15
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: 18
Midnight Cowboy: 19
The Godfather: 22
American Graffiti: 24
Jaws: 26
Star Wars: 27
Animal House: 29
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: 30
ET: 33
The Terminator: 35
Top Gun: 36
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 38
Steel Magnolias: 40
Home Alone: 41
Wayne's World: 42
Jurassic Park: 44
Forrest Gump: 45
Fargo: 46
Saving Private Ryan: 49
Toy Story 2: 50